Asus EAH5970 2GB GDDR5 Review

Introduction Today marks a 'red'-letter day of sorts for AMD, which looks to reclaim performance leadership in the graphics cards industry with its new flagship ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics accelerator. Of all the products AMD has been working on over the past year, we bet this product won the most anticipation, since the "next big thing" from [...]

Thermaltake Toughpower 750w Review

Over the past few years the requirement for high-quality power supplies has become a real issue. Since processors and graphics cards have really started to suck down power, there has been a greater demand for power supplies to perform. Computers are generating a lot more heat these days, and this has got a lot to do with its components' high [...]

Cooler Master Elite 342 Casing

Introduction Elite 342 (RC-342) is a mini-tower that accommodates micro-ATX, built with a modern black design body and front panel. This chassis maintains Elite’s pedigree of compact-sized and quality build that would look great in any space. Elite 342 maintains a quiet environment while providing the option of adding 80mm or 90mm rear [...]

Samsung SyncMaster P2370 Slim LCD

Not everyone needs an LCD monitor is that is chocked full of additional features. You may not need to have a set of integrated speakers. Maybe you don’t want to have a USB hub or a wide range of input/output options. You just want something that looks slick and does its job well. If that’s the case, then the Samsung P2370 just might be the [...]

Cooler Master Centurion 5 II Casing

Introduction The all new Centurion 5 II has been vastly improved from the inside. This mid-tower chassis is designed with increased drive bay capacity, more airflow thanks to the enhanced ventilation and fan options and easy-to-install features. This is a multi-purpose chassis that you cannot go wrong with. Features Supports up to five [...]

DFI P55 MI-T36, A Little Cutie

DFI unveiled the P55 MI-T36 to the public a couple of months ago. It's an exciting little board based upon the P55 chipset, cut back to the most desirable essentials in order to facilitate a shrink down to the mini-ITX form factor. It also offers plenty of overclocking features within the current [...]

AMD’s Radeon HD 5850 Review

Today the other shoe drops, with AMD launching the 5870’s companion card: the slightly pared down 5850. It’s the same Cypress core that we saw on the 5870 with the same features: DX11, Eyefinity, angle-independent anisotropic filtering, HDMI bitstreaming, and supersample anti-aliasing. The only difference between the two is performance and [...]

AMD’s DX11 GPU, Eyefinity and 6 Display Outputs

Introduction That's six Dell 30" displays, each with an individual resolution of 2560 x 1600. The game is World of Warcraft and the man crouched in front of the setup is Carrell Killebrew, his name may sound familiar. Driving all of this is AMD's next-generation GPU, which will be announced later this month. I didn't leave out any [...]

Kingston HyperX KHX1600C8D3K2/4GX 2×2GB Review

Introduction Intel's Nehalem cores launched last year to much fanfare and striking levels of performance over past generation processors. One new feature was the use of a tri-channel memory configuration that offered huge memory bandwidth and excellent memory performance. Now that the latest iteration of the Nehalam architecture has been released [...]

Intel Lynnfield Core i5 750 and Core i7 870 Processor Review

Introduction Intel is on the verge of transitioning to 32nm. We'll see the first parts this year. What do you do with your 45nm fabs when you start moving volume away from them? Make really cheap quad-core Nehalems of course: I'm talking $196. I'm talking faster than AMD's entire lineup. I'm talking about arguably the best processor of [...]